Death of a Salesman: The American Classic About Dashed Career Dreams

Arthur Miller's iconic drama, which won both the 1949 Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play that year, packs a timeless emotional impact with its unflinching examination of the American dream. After a lifetime as an unfulfilled traveling salesman, the aging Willy Loman finds himself at the end of his career and the end of his rope. As dreams of the past collide with visions of what might have been, Willy's wife and sons wage a desperate struggle to engage him in the present. The New York Times called Death of a Salesman "one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." Witness the epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss contained within the four walls of an American living room.

Reviews & Ratings

This was a terrific adaptation of a powerful seminal work of American theater, made all the more poignant with the recent death of Philip Seymour Hoffman who played the title role on Broadway. The acting was uniformly strong, the staging good, and the Lyric is a nice place to see a play.

This is a classic American tragedy, and even though the technology of the day is quaintly outdated, the human story still resonates. The acting is wonderful, especially the Willy Loman actor, and the Lyric Stage theatre is small and intimate. Our...continued